Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] Add prctl to kill descendants on exit

On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 08:00 +0000, Jürg Billeter wrote:

This patch adds a new prctl to kill all descendant processes on exit.
See commit message for details of the prctl.

This is a replacement of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG_PROC I proposed last year [1].
In the following discussion, Oleg suggested this approach.

The motivation for this is to provide a lightweight mechanism to prevent
stray processes. There is also a related Bugzilla entry [2].

Andrew, Eric, does this look good to you as well?

Jürg